This is the third installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”
The Church speaks not with the cleverness of men, but with the breath of God.
I always imagined dying a faithful death for Christ would mean burning at the stake. Now, I suspect it will mean dying in my bed of natural causes.

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We give thanks to the Father who has made a way for us to sit at his table.
We do not live in the greatness of our own deeds. We boast in the greatness of one deed that God himself has done through Jesus Christ on the cross.
It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
Jesus comes to you. He binds your wounds, and he pours out his body and his blood for the forgiveness of your sins.
When you walk into church on Sunday, you may not notice, but there are wounded soldiers sitting in every single pew.
And because Jesus on the cross was sin in its entirety, God cannot look at him. He turns his face away, causing Jesus to cry out in utmost agony, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
This is Christmas. It is Jesus becoming all sin from generation to generation.